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    <p>They had laid off all the good people doing workstations by then,
      I think they outsourced design/production to ODMs by that time. 
      MIP processors were long in the tooth in 1999, never mind 2007.</p>
    <p>Having been at SGI from 1995-2001, I can tell you the reason MIPS
      sucked wind at that point, was the good ship Itanic sunk Alien and
      Beast processors.  Those design teams left, and we didn't have
      much for post R10k, other than respins and shrinks of R10k.  Which
      were renamed R12k, R14k ...</p>
    <p>Beast would have been relevant (near EOL though) in 2007.  <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/23/23 14:53, Prentice Bisbal via
      Beowulf wrote:<br>
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      <p>Between 2003 and 2007, I worked with a lot of O2s, Octanes, an
        8-way Origin 350, and even a Tezro. I don't miss those days. <br>
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      <p>I always felt like the design of their workstations was done by
        the same people who design Playskool toys rather than
        professional hardware. <br>
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      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Prentice Bisbal
Senior HPC Engineer
Computational Sciences Department
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Princeton, NJ
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/23/23 1:08 PM, Ryan Novosielski
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        Seriously. I have an Indy and an Octane2 laying around. That’s
        not even an SGI. :-P
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              <div>On Mar 23, 2023, at 13:07, Michael DiDomenico <a
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                <div>ack, irix flashbacks... :) fortunately, this
                  machine isn't quite that<br>
                  old, circa 2013<br>
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                  On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 PM Darren Wise via
                  Beowulf<br>
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                    Hello,<br>
                    <br>
                    I don't personally have such myself but anything SGI
                    even with today's<br>
                    exotics Ians about the most knowledgable I know of
                    globally and<br>
                    seriously dying out within this sector, I hazard a
                    guess your SM board<br>
                    would be considered quite new compared to other
                    systems.<br>
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                    Kind Regards,<br>
                    Darren Wise<br>
                    Research Engineer, Mechatronics<br>
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                    On 23/03/2023 16:51, Michael DiDomenico wrote:<br>
                    <blockquote type="cite">does anyone happen to have
                      an old sgi / supermicro bios for an<br>
                      X9DRG-QF+ motherboard squirreled away somewhere?
                       sgi is long gone,<br>
                      hpe might have something still but who knows
                      where.  i reached out to<br>
                      supermicro, but i suspect they'll say no.<br>
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